Check out my project I’m calling Anywhere Bulletin Post on GitHub. The digital part of it is only part of it and not 100% required, but it just made sense at the time to use GitHub. It’s an Open Source Business Plan. Still in early stages of development, but I’ll be able to divert more time energy emotion and attention to less urgent things again once the matter of the United States elections are fully settled [saving the longer discussion for of those issues for later]. I suppose it would make the most sense to put it into practice and prove the concept so others can see it does in fact work….. https://github.com/cooperdozier/anywherebulletinpost.dev. I have had the idea for a front yard bulletin board for a while, but it drew some interest from other audience and the presenter at the Louisville Book Festival at a presentation called ‘Will Technology Save Us From Citizens United?’. As well as some other things I had to say. And a variety of other pieces have come together to form a model of an independent operation that can be done by 1+ people on a shoestring budget plus living stipend. But it can be highly flexible to other purposes as well. Don’t let the low-tech parts fool you, centuries of our ancestors works and practical knowledge have gone into perfecting refining such simple things as paper, white boards, pens, paper clips, and other stuff. Letters and alphabets. Screws and nails and glue. I’ve simplified my processes some but assembling a mailer that shows a perceptive viewer/reader how much of the office can travel in a backpack can fit into just a standard letter envelope but still take an hour to produce. Less now but it has fewer features than the earlier ones too…
The ‘moments of doubt’ signage is from Unsplash but I haven’t been able to find it again. I have the file I downloaded somewhere on one of my computers. That is only 3 black and gold Mickey Mouse cards actually. It’s plastic of some sort so the front and back separated. Found on the sidewalk on Bardstown road one wet morning in I think 2023. Noo…? Possibly New Years Day this year. I remember showing up at Cherokee Coins and the guy there thought I was a robber or something cuz he was supposed to be closed (but door unlocked)… I had forgotten entirely it was a holiday and just wanted to sell silver coins to buy some whiskey…. ‘Lock your door’ I told him. Not sure if same day. He bought the coins. Synchronicity or foretelling perhaps of things to come, The Dealer of the Cards and the Windows Between Us was roughly sketched out in October 2018 and refined and expanded just after the COVID lock-downs started. It says on one line: I am a sign of the times, a nonentity to the popular consciousness, yet holding my hidden hand filled with aces. Well three golden & black cartoon king cards not aces but still a rather strong hand. Not referring to or affirming the entire song lyrics, but perhaps also a foretelling? Rage Against the Machine:
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a new years day, c’mon!
The song is titled ‘War within a Breath’. If ever it happened….. I would get only guesses or maybe slight hints, no facts or evidence. Mom thought that idea hilarious at lunch one day though! … .. …… Probably forgot the wording something like,
As the great powers were assembling their war plans a lone anarchist leapt out of the shadows with a baseball bat and smashed all their plans to pieces, then just as quickly leapt back into the shadows –
It was a big and sudden LOL!
Featured Image source: Photo by Diego PH on Unsplash
Link for ODG template document referenced in the facebook screenshot published on my personal google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DbEW1vNcdtUJqROGHio_OkfsKBqhQBPJ/view?usp=drive_link
Currently running campaign – ad copy done by me is outperforming the AI generated text of the other one I placed by a fair bit:
Lost in Mist 